Farrar, Straus and Company was founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus and
John C. Farrar. In 1964 Robert Giroux's name was added to the roster and
the company became Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The firm is renowned for its
international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children's books.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over
the years, including numerous National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and
twenty-one Nobel Prizes in literature. Nobel Prize-winners include Knut
Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, T. S. Eliot, Pär Lagerkvist, François Mauriac,
Juan Ramón Jiménez, Salvatore Quasimodo, Nelly Sachs, Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Czeslaw Milosz, Elias Canetti, William Golding, Wole Soyinka, Joseph
Brodsky, Camilo José Cela, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, and Seamus
Heaney.

Poetry has always played a pivotal role on the Farrar, Straus and Giroux list,
which boasts some of the greatest names in modern verse, ranging from
Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, and Philip Larkin to John Ashbery, Thom
Gunn, and Les Murray.